Strength
At present, there are between 250–450 full-time officers and 30–60 Auxiliary officers within the NYPD Highway Patrol. As with the NYPD as a whole, the number of officers within the unit fluctuates according to budgetary and political changes. Full-time officers must volunteer, be selected to join the Highway Patrol Unit, and usually must have between five to ten years of commendable experience as a patrol officer in order to qualify for a position. Auxiliary officers must volunteer, be selected to join the Highway Patrol Unit, and must have five years of commendable experience as a patrol officer in the NYPD Auxiliary Police in order to qualify for a position. In many ways, the elite status of this unit and its traditions are similar to that of the NYPD Mounted Unit.
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Famous quotes containing the word strength:
“Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the prospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
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—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 8:2.